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What do left-over ingredients like sea cucumbers, bacon chips and ABC soup mean to me? EXPERIMENT! The raw sea cucumbers were left idle in the freezer since Chinese New Year and the bacon chips were acquire like two to three months back, couple with no other fresh vegetables and meat produce on hand I decided to make a quick dish out of these idle ingredient sitting in the freezer.
First thing is to do is to thaw the sea cucumbers, then boil it in just hot water and a few pieces of ginger to remove that fishy smell and taste. After boiling for a few minute, transfer it in to a colander to drip dry. Then it is time to put the thawed bacon in to a dry warm pan. Why dry warm pan? This way I would reduce the oil splatter. When the bacon is dry add in the cooking oil (was using peanut oil) and cook them till brown after which throw in a few cloves of garlic (here was using only 3).
After the bacon chips are brown or firmed up and the garlic starting emit that garlicky aroma, pour in the sea cucumber and stir fry until the liquid dries up. When the liquid is evaporated, I proceed to scoop some spoonfuls of last nights ABC soup to braise and further tenderise the sea cucumber and also to infuse more flavour into the sea cucumbers. The ABC soup is actually soup made of carrot, potato, onions, meat and flavoured with crushed white pepper corns. This time the soup had an added ingredient of sweet potato. In a way, this soup could also be used as soup stock to cook other dishes if the pepper corn is left out.
When the soup is almost fully evaporated, season with a pinch of salt and pepper and flavour with some oyster sauce.
Once the soup is all evaporated and what are left are just oil and some gravy, it is time to remove the pan from the flame and serve. We actually left the oily gravy in the pan and tossed our instant cooked noodles in it. Then we had the sea cucumber and bacon chips with our noodle. It was better than using the powdered seasoning that came with the noodles. And that was what we had for dinner!
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can I request a bowl of noodle with that pls???
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Jason Wong Reply:
May 29th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
NKOTB,
Can! But must wait and see got any spare sea cucumber left. hehehe…
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That was quite similar to what I had on my noodles.. except I had the sea cucumber replaced with belacan fried chicken slices and added in some button mushrooms..:P
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This is of coz healthier than the powdered seasoning but needs MORE TIME AND EFFORT loh
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sedap, why just now didn’t tapao for me?
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Criz: you Leftover King! leftover is better then fresh made sometimes! lol
ah so: leftover is just to put whatever you have in your fridge, cook all become one nia mah….very de easy!
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